Dr. Sehrish Sadia

M.Sc. Botany (PMAS AAUR), M.Phil. Botany Gold Medalist (PMAS AAUR), Ph.D. Botany (BNU, CHINA)
Assistant Professor
Email: sehrish.sadia@uvas.edu.pk

Biography

Dr. Sehrish Sadia is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.  She got M.Sc. and M. Phil. degrees in Botany from Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi and Ph.D. Botany from Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. She got annual prize of excellent international student in Beijing normal University, China, twice in Ph.D. duration. She was also nominated for excellent foreign student of Chinese Scholarship Council in 2015 based on academic and research activities. During M. Phil. she carried out her research in National Agricultural Research Center (NARC), Islamabad in the field of weed management in crops (allelopathy). In Ph.D. research project she dealt with quantitative plant ecology (by using different ecological and statistical software i.e. WINTWINS, CANOCO, PAST, BIODIVERSITY, F-DIVERSITY, OriginPro, SPSS and R) and phytochemical fingerprinting (Thin layer chromatography, High performance liquid chromatography) of medicinal plants. This work concluded with the strategies for plant conservation, quality control of herbal medicine and development of methodological protocol for multivariate quantitative analysis of plant communities. Before joining UVAS, she worked as Assistant Professor (IPFP) in Department of Botany, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore. During IPFP, she completed HEC funded SRGP project focusing ecological and molecular approach to indicator species of plant communities in hilly areas of Salt Range, Punjab. Current focus of her research is on quantitative ecology and eco-physiology of plants.

Areas of Interest

  • Quantitative ecology/plant community ecology
  • Eco-physiology of plants
  • Phytochemical fingerprinting
  • DNA fingerprinting of plants
  • Genetic variation in plants along changing environments

Publications


  1. Sehrish Sadia, Beenish Aftab, Khawaja Shafique Ahmad. 2019. Phytochemistry and ethnopharmacology of Glycine max (Soybean). Springer publishers (Accepted)
  2. Beenish Aftab, Sehrish Sadia. 2019. Molecular Aspects of Soybean-Pathogenic Interactions Springer publishers (Accepted)

 

 

  1. Bajwa, A.A., Zulfiqar, U., Sadia, S., et al. 2019. A global perspective on the biology, impact and management of Chenopodium album and Chenopodium murale: two troublesome agricultural and environmental weeds. Environmental Science and Pollution Research (IF: 2.8).
  2. Sadia et al., 2018. Gentiopicrin and Swertiamarin content of Gentiana macrophylla along elevation gradient of Dongling Mountain Meadow, Beijing, China. Pakistan Journal of Botany. (IF: 0.75) Accepted
  3. Sadia et al., 2018. Ethnopharmacological profile of anti-arthritic plants of Asia-a systematic review. Journal of Herbal Medicine. (IF: 1.685)
  4. Bai, X.H., Zhang, J.T., Sadia, S. 2018. Population structure and spatial distribution pattern of dominant tree species of forest communities in the Xiaowutai Mountain, China. Pakistan Journal of Botany 50(3): 1171-1179 (IF: 0.75)
  5. Sadia, S., Zhang, J. T., Tariq, A., Bai, X. H., Shedayi, A. A., Cao, K., Mazari, P., Aslam, S., Ahmad, L. 2018. Species diversity, vegetation pattern and conservation of Gentiana macrophylla Pall. communities in Dongling Mountain meadow, Beijing, China. Pakistan Journal of Botany 49: 1725-1734 (IF: 0.75)
  6. Sadia, S., Zhang, J. T., Shedayi, A. A., Nayyar, B. G., Bai, X. H., Mazari, P., Aslam, S., Khan, L. (2015). Vegetation Ecology in China-A review. Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences, 7(6), 249-259.
  7. Sadia, S., Zhang, J. T., Shedayi, A. A., Tariq, A., & Cao, K. (2016). Tools and techniques in plant ecology-A review. Journal of environmental and agricultural sciences, 7, 35-41.
  8. Sadia, S., Qureshi, R., Khalid, S., Nayyar, B. G., & Zhang, J. T. (2015). Role of secondary metabolites of wild marigold in suppression of Johnson grass and Sun spurge. Asian Pac. J. Trop. Biomed., 5(9), 708-712.
  9. Sadia, S., Mashwani, Z. R., Amin, H., Shedayi, A. A., Zhang, J. T., Bai, X. H., Nayyar, B. G., & Mazari, P. (2016). Qualitative and quantitative phytochemical analysis and anti-oxidant potential of Amaranthus viridis L. from Pakistan. Proceedings of 54th The IIER International Conference, Beijing, China, 10-16.
  10. Sadia, S., Qureshi, R., & Khalid, S. (2014). Allelopathic interaction of Tagetes minuta L.-An environmentally safe bioherbicide. International Research Journal of Humanities, Engineering and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1(7).
  11. Sadia, S., Qureshi, R., Khalid, S., Bajwa, A. A. (2014). Tagetes minuta L. A useful under-utilized plant of family Asteraceae: A review. Pakistan Journal of Weed Science Research, 19(2), 179-189.
  12. Bai, X., Zhang, J. T., Cao, K., Wang, Y. Q., Sadia, S., Cao, G. (2016). Relationship between forest communities and the environment in the Xiaowutai Mountain National Nature Reserve, Hebei. Acta Ecologica Sinica, DOI: stxb201604140680.
  13. Bai, X., Zhang, J. T., Cao, K., Wang, Y. Q., Sadia, S., Cao, G. (2016). Community characteristics and species diversity of subalpine meadow in Xiaowutai Mountain. Pratacultual Science, 33 (12), 2533-2543.
  14. Bajwa, A. A., Sadia, S., Ali, H. H., Jabran, K., Peerzada, A. M., Chauhan, B. S. (2016). Biology and Management of Two Important Conyza Weeds: A Global Review. Environmental Science and pollution research, 23: 24694-24710. (IF:2.8)
  15. Tariq, A., Sadia, S., Pan, K., Ullah, I., Mussarat, S., Sun, F., Abiodun, O. O., Batbaatar, A., Li, L., Song, D., Xiong, Q., Ullah, R., Khan, S., Basnet, B. B., Kumar, B., Islam, R., & Adnan, M. (2017). A systematic review on ethnomedicines of anticancer plants. Phytother. Res., 31(2):202-264. (IF: 3.349)
  16. Shedayi, A. A., Xu, M., Hussain, F., Sadia, S., Naseer, I., Bano, S. (2016). Threatened Plant Resources: Distribution and Ecosystem Services in the World's high elevation Park of the Karakoram Ranges. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 48(3), 999-1012. (IF:0.75)
  17. Shedayi, A. A., Bano, S., Xu, M., Sadia, S., Naseer, I. (2016). Physico-chemical analysis of Water Quality of Khalti Lake Gupis, Ghizer, Pakistan (A Case Study). Science International (Lahore), 28(2), 1327-1332.
  18. Shedayi, A. A., Begum, S., Sadia, S., Salim, N., Ilahi, I. (2015). Plant species consumed by Ibex and chemical analysis of Saccharum ravennae L. from three different locations of Gilgit, Pakistan. Journal of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences, 2, 16.
  19. Shedayi, A. A., Ahmad, S., Xu, M., Sadia, S., Ehsan, S., Riaz, S. (2015). Physico-chemical and bacteriological analysis of drinking water quality of Nomal, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences, 7(2), 81-87.
  20. Bajwa, A. A., Khalid, S., Sadia, S., Nabeel, M., Nafees, W. (2013). Influence of combination of allelopathic water extracts of different plants on wheat and wild oat. Pakistan Journal of Weed Science Research, 19(2), 157-166.
  21. Anwar, T., Khalid, S., Arafat, Y., Sadia, S., Riaz, S. (2013). Allelopathic suppression of Avena fatua and Rumex dentatus in associated crops. Pakistan Journal of Weed Science Research 19(1), 31-43.
  22. Raana, G., Khalid, S., Qureshi, R., Sadia, S., Bajwa, A. A. (2012). Screening and evaluation of Euphorbia Pulcherrima for weed management. Pakistan Journal of Weed Science Research, 18(4), 529-539.
  23. Arafat, Y., Khalid, S., Lin, W., Fang, C., Sadia, S., Ali, N., Azeem, S. (2015). Allelopathic evaluation of selected plant extract against broad and narrow leaved weeds and their associated crops. Academia Journal of Agricultural research, 3(10), 226-234.
  24. Nayyar, B. G., Akram, A., Akhund, S., Seerat, W., Sadia, S. (2016). Proteomics applied to plant defence mechanism: Role of pathogenesis-related proteins in disease defense. Nature and Science, 14(3), 21-33.
  25. Nayyar, B. G., Akram, A., Akhund, S., Seerat, W., Sadia, S. (2016). Comparative Efficacy of Physico-Chemical and Biological Treatments on Seed Germination and Mycoflora of Sesamum indicum L. Science, Technology and Development, 35 (4), 171-178.
  26. Fahad, S., Bajwa, A.A., Nazir, U., Anjum, S.A., Farooq, A., Zohaib, A., Sadia, S., Nasim, W., Adkins, S., Saud, S., Ihasn, M.Z., Alharby, H., Wu, C., Wang, D., Huang, J. (2017). Crop production under drought and heat stress: plant responses and management options. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 1-16. (IF:3.678)
  27. Tariq, A., Adnan, M., Iqbal, A., Sadia, S., Fan., Y., A. Nazar., S. Mussarat., M. Ahmad., O.A., Olatunji., S. Begum., P. Mazari., B. Ambreen., S.N. Khan., R. Ullah., A.L. Khan. (2017). Ethnopharmacology and toxicology of Pakistani medicinal plants used to treat gynecological complaints and sexually transmitted infections. South African Journal of Botany 114: 132- 149. (IF:1.442)
  28. Tariq, A., Adnan, M., Ahmad, M., Shinwari, S., Amber, R., Sadia, S., Mussarat, S. (2017). Pakistani anti-mastitis medicinal plants and their scientific validation against multidrug resistance mastinogen Staphylococcus aureus. Pakistan Journal of Botany 49(6): 2395-2404. (IF:0.75)
  29. Aslam, S., Tahir, A., Aslam, M.F., Alam, M.W., Sadia, S. (2017). Recent advances in molecular techniques for the identification of phytopathogenic fungi- a mini review. Journal of plant interactions 12(1): 493-504. (IF:1.655)
  30. Mazari, P., Liu, Q., Khan, M.A., Sadia, S., Ahmad, L. (2017). Pollen morphology and pollen fertility estimation of three medicinal plant species of Hypericum L. from Kaghan Valley, Northern Pakistan. American Journal of Plant Sciences 8: 3073- 3083
  31. Ahmad, L., Semotiuk, A.J., Liu, Q.R., Rashid, W., Mazari, P., Rahim, K., Sadia, S. 2018. Anti-hypertensive plants of rural Pakistan: Current use and future potential. Journal of Complementary Medicine Research 7(2): 1-16.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trainings, seminars, conferences, workshops (attended/organized)

Organized

  • Secretary/Member organizing committee of One-Day training workshop on “Basic Bioinformatics tools for functional genomics” organized by Department of Biological Sciences, UVAS, Ravi Campus, Pattoki on July 05, 2019.
  • Member organizing committee of one-day seminar on “Botanical garden; living resource for research and recreation” organized by Department of Biological Sciences, UVAS, Ravi Campus, Pattoki on July 12, 2019.
  • Co-Organizer of Annual Floral Art Competition 2018 Held in Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan

Attended

  • 6th international conference on “Sustainable agriculture in changing climate: Strategies and Management”, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of the Poonch, Rawalakot 2019.
  • 1st international of Natural Sciences (Govt. Post Graduate College (W) Gulberg, Lahore, Pakistan) 2018
  • 2nd international conference of plant sciences (GC University Lahore, Pakistan) 2018
  • A Seminar on importance of food safety and nutrition for a healthy nation held in Lahore College for Women University, Lahore on April 4, 2018.
  • World life science conference, Beijing, China 2016
  • 54th The IIER International Conference, Beijing, China 2015National Science Conference (PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi) 2012
  • International conference of biofuel and bioenergy (PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi) 2012
  • Seminar on Saline Agriculture held in NARC, Islamabad 2012
  • International Symposium of Biodiversity (Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad) 2011
  • Seminar on Effective Communication- A Key to Success (PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi) 2011
  • 3rd international and 12th national conference of botany (Quaid e Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan) 2012
  • International weed science conference (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural University Peshawar, Pakistan) 2012
  • Three days’ teachers training (Afaq Academy Islamabad) April 2010

Projects

  1. Principle investigator of Higher Education Commission (HEC, Pakistan) funded project (Start-up Research Grant Program) worth 0.5 million
  2. Title: Ecological assessment of plant communities in selected areas of Salt Range, Pakistan.

Supervision

BS (Botany) students

M.Sc. (Botany) students

2 (completed)

10 (in progress)

Achievements and awards

  • Chinese Government Scholarship of Chinese Scholarship Council for doctoral studies in China (2014-2017)
  • First Prize for Excellent foreign student of Beijing Normal University (2014-2015)
  • Second prize for Excellent foreign student of Beijing Normal University (2015-2016)
  • Vice Chancellor Merit Scholarship, top Merit GPA 3.86 M.Phil (2011)
  • Gold Medal Top Merit CGPA 3.84 M.Phil. (2012)
  • Laptop under Prime Minister laptop scheme (2012)
  • Got 4th position in M.Sc. Examination (2009)
  • Received best Student Prize from Regional Chairman Hira School System (2003)
  • Received Merit Scholarship Government of Punjab (2004)
  •  Got 1st position in SSC Examination (2003)

Memberships